Neurology books

Headaches: pain in various parts of the head, not confined to the area of distribution of any nerve.

Headache and Facial Pain (What Do I Do Now?)

Patients with headache pose many clinical challenges. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. In short, we all find ourselves from time to time in an...

Outsider art is generally narrowly defined as simply the spontaneous work of unschooled, obsessive people, often religious fanatics, prisoners, and mental patients. But there are many variations, one of the more unusual of which is the subject of Mig...

The 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain remains the definitive reference text in the field. Our knowledge and understanding of headache and its management have changed significantly in the twenty-first century. A new international hea...

Headache is the most common complaint for which people see neurologists and the seventh most common reason they visit their primary care doctors. It is the third most common cause of missed work, and can seriously undermine quality of life if not eff...

The Hormone Headache: New Ways to Prevent, Manage, and Treat Migraines and Other Headache

Addressing the underlying causes of migraine and other hormone-related headaches, including tension and food headaches, a guide for sufferers profiles the latest in drug and hormone therapies as well as a variety of non-drug treatments. ...

Headache pain is unlike any other pain; when your head throbs, your entire body suffers. An estimated 20 to 40 million people in the United States are victims of chronic, recurring headaches. Many suffer not only from the torturous pain, but also fro...

Completely revised by its original authors, this second edition updates the sections on migraine, cluster headache and vascular disease, providing the reader with an up-to-date compendium of current opinion for the study and treatment of headache....

Understanding Migraine and Other Headaches (Understanding Health and Sickness Series)

Health & SICKNESS -- Consumer Health --> In the United States, eighteen percent of women, six percent of men, and four percent of children suffer from migraine headaches. All races are affected, although, for reasons which are unknown, whites are mo...

Headache is a global problem and the needs of sufferers go largely unmet. The World Health Organization puts migraine in the top twenty diseases in terms of disability adjusted life years. Headache causes considerable economic and social impact to b...

Reassuring and authoritative, the first and only book by a pediatric specialist to illuminate the sometimes frightening world of a child's headache pain and offer advice on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and how to deal with doctors. Dr. Sarah C...

Comprehensive Review of Headache Medicine (Headache Cooperative of New England)

Headache Medicine has recently become an official medical subspecialty. Practitioners who specialize in the field come from many different backgrounds including neurology, internal medicine, anesthesiology, rehabilitation medicine, family medicine, ...

OROFACIAL PAIN AND HEADACHE is a timely, comprehensive and instructive addition to the pain literature; in particular the important and truly multidisciplinary area of orofacial pain. Based on their extensive clinical experience and a thorough unders...

Headache is the number one complaint that causes a patient to see a neurologist. Because headaches constitute such a large part of many clinicians practices, the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties created an annually-administered headache s...

Written and contributed by international experts, Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management provides the best current evidence on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of patients with the highly prev...

Cluster Headaches - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to I

In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: 'The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable o...

Migraine is the most common neurological condition in the developed world. It affects over 15% of the UK population and is more prevalent than diabetes, epilepsy and asthma combined. Attacks can be completely disabling, forcing the sufferer to abando...

Supported by an extensive review of migraine pathogenesis and more than 200 case histories gleaned from the authors' personal experiences, this guide proposes two radical new concepts: all primary headaches are fundamentally a form of migraine and ev...

This book explains the physical reasons for continued pain caused by whiplash and related head trauma, which affects an estimated 7 to 12 million Americans each year and costs the U.S. approximately $20 billion annually in lost work days and medical ...

Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America

This is the story of how a common ailment - the headache - became the centre of a multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry in the United States. Despite the increasing authority of the medical profession in the 20th century, treatment of this cond...

It has been estimated that from 60 to 70 million Americans have experienced some form of headache. Headache is one of the more prevalent problems to be confronted by practitioners today; therefore, it is essential to be aware of the various cause...

Conquering Headache, Fourth Edition provides the information needed to conquer headaches and improve the quality of life. This new edition includes chapters detailing the latest information about medication for acute treatment of attacks, preventativ...